Paul Newman Quotes
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It's been a privilege to be here.
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I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
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The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
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Watching something is nothing like doing it.
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Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.
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I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.